Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

See page 542 for ECE222, this is really important.

It never clicked with me until I heard xQc complaining about how these high end GPUs don’t even have HDMI anymore, and then I realized ahh, this is why you need a GPU, to see the actual graphics.

GPU vs CPU

While CPUs (Central Processing Units) are designed to handle a wide range of tasks in a sequential manner, GPUs are specialized processors designed to handle highly parallel tasks, particularly those related to graphics rendering.

iGPU vs. dGPU

• iGPU = Integrated GPU
• dGPU = Dedicated GPU

iGPU shares the same chip as the CPU. Source

eGPU

External GPU is slightly different from dGPU. eGPU is done through the Razer Core X Chroma.

Concepts

• CUDA

Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrAMBi_8tIk&ab_channel=gameranx

Related

• Tensor Processing Unit